Tournament: Voices RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker SP | Judge: Shayne Walton, Adam Bistagne
A. Interpretation: If the aff defends a theory of the good under consequentialism, for example, minimizing existential risk, then each framework warrant must explicitly justify that specific theory of the good, not just consequentialism. To clarify, you can’t read Nagel saying pain is bad with a standard of minimizing existential risk.

B. Violation

C. Standards

1. Ground

2. Strat Skew

Drop the Debater

Competing Interps

No RVI’s

Tournament: CPS | Round: Doubles | Opponent: University JC | Judge: Fife, Knell, Amestoy
A. Interpretation: Debaters may not read a standard text of consistency with the constitutive aims of public universities and colleges on the Jan Feb 2017 topic.

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale AW | Judge: Ben Holguin
The role of the ballot and judge as an educator is to reject arguments based on asymmetrical power relations—because pedagogical contexts are inherently political, we have a unique opportunity to promote real change. Trifonas 03,
PETER PERICLES TRIFONAS. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE/ RoutledgeFalmer. New York, London. 2003. Questia.
Just as objective social reality exists not by chance, but as the product of action, so it is not transformed by chance. If men/women produce social reality (which in the “inversion of praxis”
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and activity that work to ameliorate and ultimately end the mutually constitutive forms of violence that characterize our internal neocolonial condition. For us, a decolonizing pedagogy addresses both the means and the ends of schooling.

The political system is predicated on the oppression of the black body. From slavery to Reconstruction to the convict leasing system political hope is a LIE. Warren 15:
(Calvin L. Spring. Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope. Michigan State University Press. Accessed via Project Muse. Assistant Professor of African Studies at George Washington University. PDF)
Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and
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death become the premiere vehicles of polit- ical perfection and social maturation. 

Claiming that we must defend solutions because there are no alternatives creates an action/inaction binary that conceals the suffering that so-called solutions cause. Warren 2:
Black nihilism is a “demythifying” practice, in the Nietzschean vein, that uncovers the subjugating strategies of political hope and de-idealizes its fan- tastical object.
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the idea of a “solution” is nothing more than the repetition and disavowal of the problem itself. 

Political solutions exist in an unrealized future creating a “trick of time” as black people are told that it will get better even though it never does. Hoping for a better future conceals evidence of failure. Warren 3:
The solution relies on
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, just the illusion of a different order in a future tense. 

Meaning itself is predicated on antiblackness. The aff’s search for some coherence and meaning in this absurd world is overt antiblackness. Warren 4:
Meaning itself is an aspect of anti-blackness
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 discloses it in all of its terroristic historicity. 

The aff’s attempt at establishing an objective philosophy is impossible- all thought is predicated on anti-blackness, which is a prior question to political programs. Warren 5:
Vattimo adumbrates a relationship between metaphysics and colonialism/ Eurocentrism
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reproduce the very structures of thought that it would dismantle. 

As black people are told that it will get better if they just struggle more, political hope creates ressentiment, torment without relief, and the black body continues to suffer. Warren 6:
It is easy to disparage behavior that runs contrary to the dictates of a bio-political order.
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in which the body must speak the existential crisis that gets muted within humanist grammars. 

Because the entire structure of society depends on the suffering of black people, political hope creates a vicious cycle of never-ending torment. Warren 7:
Throughout this essay, I have argued that the Politics of hope preserve meta- physical structures that
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black death to sustain itself. Black nihilism attempts to break this “drive”—to stop it in its tracks, as it were—and to end the cycle of insanity that political hope perpetuates. 

The alternative is political apostasy-the only coherent action is self-excommunication from the Political. We must refuse to place our faith in a system that continues to fail so many. Warren 8:
Political Apostasy For West and Brogdon, nihilism is a spiritual-psychic disorder that
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critique and spiritual practice.

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker EM | Judge: Kathy Wang
Fixation on particular identities prevents coalition building needed to fight capitalism. Dean ‘05
Dean, Teaches Political Theory @ Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2005 Jodi, Žižek’s Politics, p.115-9
Unlike most critical thinkers identified with the Left, Žižek rejects the current emphasis on multicultural tolerance. He has three primary reasons for rejecting multiculturalism as it is currently understood in cultural studies and democratic theory. First, agreeing with Wendy Brown, he argues that multiculturalism today rests on an acceptance of  AND prevents the universalization of particular demands.
 
Class focus must come first – it is the root cause of all oppression. Kovel 07,
Kovel, Prof. of Social Studies @ Bard, 2007 Joel, “The Enemy of Nature”, p. 140-
If, however, we ask the question of efficacy, that is, which split sets the others into motion, then priority would have to be given to class, for the plain reason that
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as well as profoundly affecting the concrete relations of class itself. It follows that class politics must be fought out in terms of all the active forms of social splitting.
 
Rejecting capitalism is the first step—a refusal to believe in the system can topple empires. Monbiot 04,
Monbiot, 04 (George Monbiot, Professor of Philosophy at Bristol and Professor of Politics at Keele. Author, columnist, and political activist. “Manifesto for a New World Order.” p. 249)
It costs nothing to agree that something should be done
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 because they have had to struggle against the unbelief of their people, to reassert, through a supreme psychological effort, the validity of their power.

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Felix Tan
Free Speech
Econ advantage

Free speech is impossible in a capitalist environment—the right to free speech hinders on social relations and economic status; all means of expression assume socioeconomic means that the aff glosses over. Morley ‘15
Our Cherished Freedom of Speech Myth Written by Daniel MorleyFriday, 20 February 2015 http://www.marxist.com/our-cherished-freedom-of-speech-myth.htm
As Lenin succinctly summed up, “Freedom in capitalist society always remains just about
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that is the demand of those who fight for real freedom of expression!

Their conception of free expression promotes market ideals that undermine genuine free exchange of ideas—that both turns the aff and is the backbone of capitalism. Dawes ‘15
Dawes 15 (Simon, Sociology @ Universite Paul Valery, Montpelier, France, “Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech and Counter-Speech”, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/20/3/3.html)
In both French and Anglo-Saxon contexts, however, the concepts of 'freedom
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, above and beyond those of an individual, in a multicultural society.

Root Cause (Opression)

Class focus must come first – it is the root cause of all oppression. Kovel 07,
Kovel, Prof. of Social Studies @ Bard, 2007 Joel, “The Enemy of Nature”, p. 140-
If, however, we ask the question of efficacy, that is,
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unfolding of contemporary ecological struggles, as we discuss in the next section.

Individual Rejection

We should completely withdraw from the logic of capitalism—individual criticism is key to solve.
Adrian Johnston 4 Dept of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, “The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Žižek and the Dynamics of Belief”, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Volume 1, 2004, BE
Perhaps the absence of a detailed practical roadmap in Žižek’s political writings isn’t
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comforting fiction (“Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism.”).

Role of the ballot is to reject capitalism

Young people rejecting capitalism is a necessary first step—fighting against the neoliberal order is sufficient—critique comes before reform.
Henry Giroux 11 American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, “Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy”, Truthout, 28 Feb 2011, BE
At the heart of such public spaces is a formative culture that creates citizens who
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by the tawdry promises and failed returns of corporate dominated and authoritarian regimes.

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Felix Tan
Resolved: Aff actor ought to expand the fighting words doctrine to include racist speech. Finegan 91 summarizes Lawrence:
Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 11 | Issue 1 Article 5 1-1-1991 Anti-Harrassment Disciplinary Policies: A Violation of First Amendment Rights on the Public University Campus? Susan M. Finegan
Other commentators have also tried to reconcile these two commitments, free speech and equality
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spirit, if not the letter, of existing first amendment doctrine."205

Net Benefits

Hate speech causes a long-term mindset shift that makes minorities unwelcome in society. Fish 12:
(Stanley. June 4. The New York Times. The Harm in Free Speech. Visiting Law Professor at Yeshiva University School of Law. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/the-harm-in-free-speech/?_r=1 LS)
Jeremy Waldron’s new book, “The Harm in Hate Speech,” might well be
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disturbing that older and cruder models remain dominant in the First Amendment arena.” 

Hate speech causes real, tangible harm-ignoring this makes YOU ivory tower academia. Fish 12:
(Stanley. June 4. The New York Times. The Harm in Free Speech. Visiting Law Professor at Yeshiva University School of Law. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/the-harm-in-free-speech/?_r=1 LS)
Notice that here (and elsewhere in the book), Waldron refuses to distinguish sharply
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arguments of this book, however; they hit the mark every time.

Hate speech causes a mindset shift and intimidates victims of hate crimes. McEwee 13:
(Sean. July 24. The Huffington Post. The Case for Censoring Hate Speech. Writer and journalist for Politico and the New York Times. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-mcelwee/hate-speech-online_b_3620270.html LS)
The negative impacts of hate speech cannot be mitigated by the responses of third-
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dialogue must be held at least partially responsible for our larger rape culture.

Hate speech excludes minorities from accessing free speech-turns the aff. McEwee 13:
(Sean. July 24. The Huffington Post. The Case for Censoring Hate Speech. Writer and journalist for Politico and the New York Times. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-mcelwee/hate-speech-online_b_3620270.html LS)
Those who claim to “defend free speech” when they defend the right to
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misogyny is pervasive. I encountered this when browsing /r/funny.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley CS | Judge: Rugved Karhade
CP: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict constitutionally protected journalist speech but restrict reporting of student survivors and perpetrators of student criminal activity.

In the squo police blotters, crime reports put in student newspapers, are constitutionally protected. Gersh ‘91
Judge Rules in Favor of Students in Campus Crime Reports Case By Gersh, Debra Judge Rules in Favor of Students in Campus Crime Reports Case By Gersh, Debra | Editor and Publisher, November 30, 1991
The Department of  AND cumbersome and ineffective

This harms the students—creates a permanent online record of minor college crimes that are often expunged by the legal system. That harms post college job prospects and shaming on campus. Reimold ‘13
Dan Reimold, 10-22-2013, "Should college newspapers publish the names of student criminal suspects?," USA TODAY College, http://college.usatoday.com/2013/10/22/should-college-newspapers-publish-the-names-of-student-criminal-suspects/
As she contends, “Miami  AND breaking the law is breaking the law.”
Police blotters for college students are counterproductive; the safety and security of students is lost as their home becomes hostile towards them. Anonymity is lost and a regular education is impossible. Madison ‘16
Madison Nick, xx-xx-xxxx, "Public knowledge or public humiliation?," Tab Pitt, http://thetab.com/us/pitt/2016/03/21/public-knowledge-public-humiliation-236
Having your mistakes  AND call your university home?

This is particularly bad in regards to sexual violence—survivors are outed in reports. Schworm ‘12
By Peter Schworm GLOBE STAFF  APRIL 28, 2012. Naming of rape victim leads to dispute at Bridgewater State. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/04/27/student-newspaper-coverage-rally-against-sexual-assault-sets-off-controversy-bridgewater-state/DGe2IhVdQ16LYEKTrlguoK/story.html
A college newspaper  AND set a dangerous precedent,’’ she said.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 2 | Opponent: Oakwood CB | Judge: Katya Brooun
NC Shell
I value justice. Constitutively state is the symbolic embodiment of justice, which grounds its authority. Bonald ONE:
Bonald’s pseudonym is chosen in honor of Louis de Bonald (1754-1840), the French Catholic monarchist and defender of the patriarchal family. https://bonald.wordpress.com/in-defense-of-monarchy/
The distinguishing AND clear as possible.
Thus, the standard is consistency with symbolic justice. Prefer further since it’s actor-specific; your arguments may be true for an individual, but not for the state.
I contend that any and all censorship is a necessary right of state institutions – it is a matter of self-defense in sustaining the symbolic authority of the state. Bonald TWO:
My pseudonym is chosen in honor of Louis de Bonald (1754-1840), the French Catholic monarchist and defender of the patriarchal family. https://bonald.wordpress.com/in-defense-of-censorship/
We Westerners are  AND it something else?
This negates because:
A) analytic
B) analytic
C) analytic
D) analytic
E) analytic

Freedom is a joke when people desire their own repression – the aff’s deliberate opposition to repression turns itself when speech unconsciously furthers repression. Deleuze and Guattari:
Anti-Oedipus Deleuze and Guattari 2004 pg 114
It is not  AND on each other.

Tournament: CPS | Round: Finals | Opponent: Harvard Westlake EE | Judge: Arjun Tambe, Connor Riano, Ryan Leigh
A. Interpretation: On the Jan/Feb 2017 topic, the aff cannot specify a single type of constitutionally protected speech that their advocacy does not restrict. As a negative polarity item, ‘any’ is an indefinite. Kadmon and Landman ONE:
Any Author(s): Nirit Kadmon and Fred Landman Source: Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Aug., 1993), pp. 353-422 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25001516 Accessed: 15-12-2016 03:12 UTC www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25001516.pdf
 As is well known, any can function in two different ways. On
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PS any is an existential quantifier, and FC any is a universal quantifier
‘Any’ reduces tolerance of exceptions. Kadmon and Landman TWO:
Any Author(s): Nirit Kadmon and Fred Landman Source: Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Aug., 1993), pp. 353-422 Published by: Springer Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25001516 Accessed: 15-12-2016 03:12 UTC www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25001516.pdf
What is it that any adds to the meaning of the indefinite NP? We
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that they too are no exception to the claim that I don't have potatoes
B. Violations:
1) Specification is incompatible with ‘any’ as an indefinite. Indefinites do not refer to particular identified instantiations. McNair:
What's the Rule? Author(s): John McNair Source: Technical Communication, Vol. 30, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE on Word Processing and Automated Composition (FOURTH QUARTER 1983), p. 41 Published by: Society for Technical Communication Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/43086801 Accessed: 15-12-2016 04:22 UTC
Sometimes I am asked to quote the rule about the use of plural verbs with
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or plural verb, then, often depends on what the writer means.
2) Kadmon and Landman TWO show ‘any’ permits few if any exceptions. But the aff ITSELF is a single instantiation, so it can’t affirm a general rule, let alone exclude any exception.
C. Prefer:

1. Grammar. Semantics first.
   2. Limits-
   3. Topical version of the aff –

Tournament: CPS | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lynbrook HW | Judge: Jackson Lallas
A. Interpretation: On the Jan/Feb 17 topic the aff must specify what a restriction on constitutionally protected speech entails.

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: Semis | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Devane Murphy, Isis Davis-Marks, Demarcus Powell
The history of qualified immunity court decisions shows how each attempt to create more sound civil rights litigation procedures ends up inadvertently expanding protection for police officers. Layering temporalities, creating legal time frames, and replacing bright line rules with balancing tests prove how every single immunity reform just creates larger legal indeterminacy. The affirmative simply adds onto that indeterminacy turning case. Feldman ‘15
Police Violence and the Legal Temporalities of Immunity Leonard Feldman Hunter College, CUNY. 2015
My argument in this section is that the Supreme Court has created a legal grey
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determination of “qualified immunity,” which I discuss in the next section.

The Aff’s appeal to civil liberties is a façade that only furthers the state’s biopolitical control over the population—destroys rights and turns case. Anders ‘13
Anders 13, Abram Anders is an Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth, nearest date given is 2013, “Foucault and "the Right to Life": From Technologies of Normalization to Societies of Control,” http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3340/3268, NN
The essential and unavoidable problem with rights discourse is that it appeals to a liberal
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functional impairment as an essential pre-condition for legal findings about disability."

Legal reforms hurt social justice– starting from the perspective of legal solutions forecloses the political imaginary and hampers radical solutions—turns the aff Kandaswamy ‘12
Kandaswamy 12 (Priya Kandaswamy; Associate Professor Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; “THE OBLIGATIONS OF FREEDOM AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL EQUALITY” SOUTHWESTERN LAW REVIEW Vol. 41, pg 265, 1/21/2012)
Despite a vast array of critiques that have elucidated the ways in which the U
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could look like and locate legal interventions in relation to this broader vision. 

The alternative is a counter-reading of the harms of the 1AC. We REFUSE their faith in policy stories.  Legalism underpins the violence of empire and creates the conditions of possibility for liberal violence. Dossa ‘99
Dossa ’99 Shiraz, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, “Liberal Legalism: Law, Culture and Identity,” The European Legacy, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 73-87,1
No discipline in the rationalized arsenal of modernity is as rational, impartial, objective
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liberal law but the juridically and humanly inferior Other, the perpetual foreigner.

We ought to prioritize movements for deconstructive resistance over blind faith in legal studies. Only the alt can effectively contest domestic cultures of violence. Hirst ‘15
Hirst ‘15 (Aggie She, Lecturer in International Politics @ City University London, “Derrida and Political Resistance: The Radical Potential of Deconstruction” Globalizations, Vol. 12.1)
There are many manifestations of the practical consequences of deconstructive resistance across a range of
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commitments, dealing with difference in terms and contexts other than the familiar.

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit RC | Judge: Travis Fife
Text: The United States Congress should pass and at least three-fourths of the states should ratify a constitutional amendment .

Amendments can overturn the Supreme Court Schaffner 2005,
American University Law Review, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
Because the judicial branch has the ultimate authority over constitutional interpretation and construction, the
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power to overrule these cases was proper and consistent with basic democratic principles. 

Judicial interpretation destroys liberty and prevents political engagement Twight 2K
(Charlotte Twight, Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, Professor of Economics at Boise State University, 10-1-2K “Constitutional Counterrevolution” http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=277)
As I see it, here is what happened. During the twentieth century,
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shield intrastate commerce or other realms from the federal government’s growing regulatory reach. 

Political engagement key to solve all impacts from environmental destruction to imperialism BOGGS 2K
 PF POLITICAL SCIENCE – SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CAROL, THE END OF POLITICS, 250-1
But it is a very deceptive and misleading minimalism. While Oakeshott debunks political mechanisms
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forces cannot be tamed by a pragmatic, muddling-through modus operandi.

Warming is real, anthropogenic, and causes extinction.
Jamail 15 Dahr “Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It” July 6 2015 Truthout http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31661-mass-extinction-it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it JW
Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of evolutionary biology, natural resources and ecology at
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Compare the actions of the CP and of the AC under the Kant framework

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit RC | Judge: Travis Fife
B. Violation

C. Standards

The squo is indeterminate about which courts have the authority to clearly establish law. Meyers 96:
(Linda Ross. When Reasonable Minds Differ. New York Law Review. 1996. Professor of Law at Quinnipac School of Law. http://www.nyulawreview.org/sites/default/files/pdf/NYULawReview-71-6-Meyer.pdf LS)
First, courts in qualified immunity cases have had difficulty finding the right level of
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immunity question whether the officer was reasonable in thinking his unreasonable conduct lawful.

A. Stable ground-
B. Weighing ground-

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep MK | Judge: Abbey Chapman, Loren Eastlund, Carlos Taylor
Courts are clogged-one big push causes collapse. Bannon September 2013:
Alicia Bannon September 10, 2013
(Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts. Brennan Center for Justice. http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-federal-courts-need-more-judges)
While the current high level of judicial vacancies partially explains this high per-judge
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2013, so as to ensure the continued vitality of our federal courts.

Litigation against police is specifically on the rise-that causes court clog. Rosen 05:
(Michael. Golden Gate University Law Review. January. A Qualified Defense: In Support of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement. UCSD School of Law. http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1899andcontext=ggulrev)
Public policy seeks to balance the need to protect law enforcement officers from frivolous lawsuits
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Jesse H. Grant, an Oakland, California, police officer. ,

QI stops weak cases from going to trial. Jeffries 10:
(John C. June. What’s Wrong With Qualified Immunity? University of Virginia Law School. Prominent law professor; former dean of the University of Virginia Law School. http://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=816116074064001018089031082074024081024036042028091005105067118026092072091073083126009003116014006009030066117023111106096083114026028080092004068107114106103086090081005076083066122121024099093102087065120066115123072112065127075080124112100007005068andEXT=pdf LS)
So what should we do? I have two suggestions, both of which are
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preclude putting constitutional tort defendants to the burden of trial in weak cases.

Court clog collapses the federal judiciary – overburdens dockets, expansion can't keep pace. Oakley  ‘96
Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal
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future course of the nation.

A high functioning federal judiciary is necessary to prevent extinction. Effective separation of power solves unaccountable decisions to go to war. Adler  ‘96
The structure of shared powers
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, in the decision to initiate war.

Tournament: Voices RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Rowland Hall KO | Judge: David Dosch, Steven Herman
A singular focus on environmental reform allows capital to turn labor forces and other groups against environmental movements and destroys the possibility of truly challenging capital.
Foster and Soron 4 (John Bellamy, Professor of  Sociology at University of Oregon and Dennis, researcher with the Neoliberal Globalism and Its Challengers Project at the University of Alberta, where he also teaches part-time in the sociology department, Ecology, capitalism, and the socialization of nature)
JBF: The piece that you mention was written in the early 1990s at the
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that it strives to protect the natural environment. This would help to develop

Focusing on specific types of oppression, such as structural violence, obscures the underlying root causes, which turns the case.
Slavoj Zizek 99, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, 1999, The Ticklish Subject, page 352-355
The big news of today’s post-political age of the ‘end of ideology’
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more than ever caught in an inexorable compulsion that effectively runs his life.  

We should completely withdraw from the logic of capitalism—individual criticism is key to solve.
Adrian Johnston 4 Dept of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, “The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Žižek and the Dynamics of Belief”, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Volume 1, 2004, BE
Perhaps the absence of a detailed practical roadmap in Žižek’s political writings isn’t
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comforting fiction (“Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism.”).

The plan causes oil prices to spike
Tverberg 11 (Gail E, writer @ Oil Prices, “What The End Of Nuclear Power Would Actually Mean For The World,” March 16, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-be-the-impact-if-we-discontinued-nuclear-energy-2011-3)
4. Rolling blackouts would likely result in many areas, because of the difficulty
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might even rise also, since oil can also be used for generation.

High energy prices cause a huge increase in food prices
Thompson 8 (John, is the director of public relations for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, “Commentary: Don't throw ethanol under the bus,” The Idaho Business Review, 9/8/08, pg nexis)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the White House Council of Economic
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that dollar goes to the actual cost of food inputs such as grains. 

Food insecurity causes global instability, war, political upheavals, and extinction  
Winnail 96 (Ph.D., M.P.H, 1996 (Douglas S., "On the Horizon: Famine," September/October, http://www.kurtsaxon.com/foods004.htm)
As a result grain prices are the highest on record. Worldwatch Institute's president,
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--at a time when the total destruction of humanity would be possible!

High energy prices collapse minority businesses
Inhofe 3 (James, US Senator, Senate floor statement, 7/28. http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climate.htm)
Among the many questions this provokes, one might ask: Won't be a burden
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remedy our cast-away-ness among our ideological tendencies and politics.

Tournament: Voices RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Rowland Hall KO | Judge: David Dosch, Steven Herman
Coal is on its way out-Paris deal proves. Leber 16:
(Rebecca. February 29. Coal use is down in the U.S. and China — and it’s not a blip. Grist. News editor on reports on climate change and policy. http://grist.org/news/coal-use-is-down-in-the-u-s-and-china-and-its-not-a-blip/ LS)
China and the U.S. — the world’s two largest economies — are
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least we have an idea now that it’s headed in the right direction.

Nuclear power key to reduce greenhouse emissions and prevent a shift to coal. BIELLO 13:

“How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming” By David Biello on December 12, 2013 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/
In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors
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after the end of the nuclear power plant construction era in the 1980s.

Germany proves. Wilson 14
(Robert. January 20. The Energy Collective. Why Germany’s Nuclear Phase Out is Leading to More Coal Burning. http://www.theenergycollective.com/robertwilson190/328841/why-germanys-nuclear-phase-out-leading-more-coal-burning LS)
We are also now seeing increasing numbers of people suddenly noticing an uptick in coal
AND
At best you could call the recent developments in Germany’s electricity sector contradictory.

Coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear plants-turns case. Hvistendahl 07:
(Mara. December 13. Coal Ash is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste. Scientific American. Pulitzer Prize Finalist, correspondent at Science Magazine. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ )
The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons: Springfield abounds
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equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities.

Climate change disproportionately impacts minorities and indigenous people. Baird 08
(Rachel. April. The Impact of Climate Change on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. Minority Rights Group International. NGO working to secure minority rights. http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/ClimateChange/Submissions/Minority_Rights_Group_International.pdf LS)
Climate change is attracting ever more attention from the media, academics, politicians and
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, or influence over governments’ plans for combating and adapting to climate change. 

Climate change disproportionately impacts marginalized groups. Care ND
(Underlying causes of vulnerability to climate change, including poverty, gender and marginalization. Care climate change.org. Aims to empower poor and marginalized groups affected by climate change. http://www.careclimatechange.org/tk/integration/en/step_by_step_guidance/analysis/underlying_causes_of_vulnerability.html LS)
How do poverty, gender and marginalisation contribute to vulnerability to climate change? Do
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and priorities of communities in general, and of vulnerable groups in particular.

Tournament: Voices RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker SP | Judge: Shayne Walton, Adam Bistagne
I value morality. Ontologically, a person is one who can set and pursue ends. The only political association we could agree to would start there. Ripstein ONE:
This right to independence is not a special case of a more general interest in
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unconditionally, because it is not a way of achieving some other end.

Other political systems aren’t just normatively inadequate; those contracts literally can’t exist. Ripstein TWO:
This argument for the incoherence of slavery contracts parallels the familiar Kantian “contradiction in
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which is a precondition of anyone’s having the power to transfer rights.3

Because wronging someone entails using them to pursue your ends, the mere omission of joining national service cannot wrong anyone. Prohibiting actions that entail harm, but do not wrong is ITSELF a wrong. Ripstein:
Pg 58 Force and Freedom
Each person’s entitlement to decide how his or her powers will be used precludes prohibiting
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you provide me with favorable background conditions to use my own powers.26 

Contention

Because wronging someone entails using them to pursue your ends, the mere omission of prohibiting nuclear power cannot wrong anyone. Prohibiting actions that entail harm, but do not wrong is ITSELF a wrong. Ripstein:
Pg 58 Force and Freedom
Each person’s entitlement to decide how his or her powers will be used precludes prohibiting
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you provide me with favorable background conditions to use my own powers.26 

You’ll say it’s a hindrance to a hindrance, but preventative legislation is still a violation of freedom. Patruti:
The Ethics of Environmental Protection Alexandru Pătruţi © Institutul Ludwig von Mises - România 9 Introduction mises.ro/929/
However, the so called “preventive” legislation – the laws which aim at
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opinion, the free market is the most efficient mechanism for environment protection.

Tournament: Voices RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Rowland Hall KO | Judge: David Dosch, Steven Herman
A. Interpretation- The aff must not specify that insert actor ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.

B. Violation

C. Standards

1. Precision- Bare plurals such as “countries” or “autonomous medical choices” aren’t about any specific within the set-exceptions can’t prove the rule. Damerdji summarizes Nebel in 15:
   Salim Damerdji. September 27, 2015. Comment on PDT article: Nebel T- I Sip it. http://premierdebatetoday.com/2015/09/22/nebel-t-i-sip-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3164
   I agree that it’s dubious to deem one vernacular as “correct” among a
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   more to the point, standards for logical inferences can’t be categorically oppressive.

 “Countries” is a bare plural, which refers to generics. Leslie  :
  Generics To appear in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Sarah-Jane Leslie Penultimate Draft: Please cite final version only https://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/RoutledgeEncyclopediaEntry2.pdf Professor Department of Philosophy Affiliated Faculty Department of Psychology Executive Committee Program in Linguistics
Generics are statements such as “dogs are mammals”, “a tiger is striped
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” are classified generics, but we will not follow this practice here.)

2. Limits- 

Fairness outweighs the K

Drop the Debater

Competing Interps

RVI’s BAD

Tournament: Voices | Round: 6 | Opponent: Nisarg Shah | Judge: Nicholas Rogers
Nuclear power is key to Belgian energy – makes half of its electricity and prevents carbon emissions

IEA 16 International Energy Association, "Energy Policies of IEA Countries: 2016 Review Belgium," 2016 AZ
Nuclear power plays a  AND and had an important role in Belgium’s efforts to reduce air pollution (sulphur dioxide SO2 and oxides of nitrogen NOx).

Nuclear power key to stop emissions in Belgium

Toobin 16 Adam Toobin, "Why Target Belgium? For Terrorists, the Answer Is Complicated and Nuclear" Inverse Magazine, 3/22/2016 AZ
Belgium remains heavily  AND the current facilities expire.

Belgium is key – it's a lynchpin in international climate change, which kills biodiversity, food security, and causes conflicts.

NCC 10 National Climate Commission of Belgium, "BELGIAN NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGY," December 2010 AZ
Since 2008, the Belgian  AND negotiated in Copenhagen.

Climate change causes extinction and outweighs on irreversibility and empirical verfiability. Dyer ‘12:
Here's how bad it could get. The scientific consensus is that AND species. This has happened before many times in the Earth's history.

Tournament: Voices | Round: 4 | Opponent: Chaitanya Sayani | Judge: Karen Qi
Grid reliability depends on dispatchable generation from nonrenewable energy—minor shifts in the supply-demand balance cascade into blackouts
Fisher, 15—IER Economist (Travis, “ASSESSING EMERGING POLICY THREATS TO THE U.S. POWER GRID,” http://instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Threats-to-U.S.-Power-Grid.compressed.pdf, dml)
Electric reliability in the U.S. is excellent overall, which is a
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Central and South America, Eurasia, and the Middle East combined.21

Plan kills the grid
Mills 2015- Senior Fellow @ The Manhattan Institute
Mark P, "The Clean Power Plan Will Collide With the Weird Physics of the Electric Grid," Aug 7, https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/clean-power-plan-will-collide-weird-physics-electric-grid-6354.html
The idiosyncratic physics of electricity will ultimately doom the aspirational goals of the new 1
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and less reliable will be terrible for the economy and toxic for politicians.

Intermittency causes nuclear war
Andres and Breetz, 11—Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College AND doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Richard and Hanna, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications,” Strategic Forum, February 1, 2011, dml) ableist language modifications denoted by brackets
Grid Vulnerability. DOD is unable to provide its bases with electricity when the civilian
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however, may not share this fear or be deterred by this possibility.